Editing Old Dock (section)

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{{Infobox docks
| name = Old Dock
| image = Old Dock Liverpool.jpg
| caption = Old Dock wall in 2012
| location = [[Liverpool]], [[United Kingdom]] 
| coordinates = {{coord|53.4025|-2.9886|display=title, inline|region:GB_scale:2000}} <!-- estimaped from http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2a.htm -->
| grid_ref_UK = SJ342900
| owner = [[Grosvenor Group]] (site)<ref name="ODT">{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/old_dock_tours.aspx|title=Info|work=National Museums Liverpool|access-date=21 August 2010}}</ref>
| opened = 31 August 1715
| closed = 31 August 1826
| area = {{convert|3+1/2|acre|ha|abbr=on}}
| type = [[Floating dock (impounded)|Wet dock]]
}}

The '''Old Dock''', originally known as '''Thomas Steers' dock''', was the world's first commercial [[floating dock (impounded)|wet dock]].<ref name="Trading Places: Old Dock History">{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history7.html|title=Trading Places: Old Dock History|work=Liverpool Museums|access-date=24 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324050020/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history7.html|archive-date=24 March 2008}}</ref>  
The {{convert|3+1/2|acre|ha|abbr=on}} dock was built on the [[River Mersey]] in [[Liverpool]], [[England]], starting in 1710 and completed in 1716.<ref name="OA">{{cite web|url=http://oxfordarchaeology.com/research-projects-by-name/225-liverpool-s-old-dock-and-the-maritime-trade-of-the-north-west|title=Liverpool's Old Dock and the maritime trade of the North-West|work=Oxford Archaeology|access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="PPS2006-260">{{harvnb|Pollard|Pevsner|Sharples|2006|p=260}}</ref> A natural tidal pool off the River Mersey, which probably gave its [[Liverpool#Toponymy|name to Liverpool]] centuries earlier, was partially filled and locked in from the river with quay walls erected.